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what top medical advice firegazer? The WHO was very resistant to making the recommendation. It was only because Trump took on the WHO over their lackluster response under Chinese influence that Trump haters pushed the WHO into a position of recommending mask wearing. Show me the formal studies, not opinions or assumed best practice guidance, that actually shows the mask wearing in the general population has any effect in mitigating the spread of any virus or bacterial infection. If it were the case, we would have been wearing masks starting many many decades ago. In asian societies, it was a form of politeness and a way to sell something to people to make them feel good. Mask wearing became an anti-Trump symbol and was pushed as such. A lot of people died for the great nobel cause of anti-trumpism.

Well Taky, 3 very interesting question selections. Know little about Trump or what he stands for, but have been fascinated by the response in US and other media to his candidacy and subsequent election. The reaction has been extraordinary, US mass media did not like the candidate, not sure what they thought of the policies, but the reaction to the election has been extraordinary. The media bias has been remarkable to observe. 'Support' vaccination. I know how much you would wish to pigeon hole me on vaccination inspired by the US media handling of Trump, but alas I see the vaccination program against all diseases a very worthwhile practice and didn't hesitate in getting the vaccination against a rampant killer virus. We are very lucky the boffins cracked that nut so quick. As for climate change, I questioned the legitimacy of ozone hole claims and have seen the climate change saga from the very start. There has always been changes to the climate. The ability of mankind to change a planet's climate is non existent. But again, we have an extraordinary level of media coverage where all, and I mean ALL, of the qualified rebuttals have been suppressed and never get aired. The hysteria around the cult of climate change is very much out of control and the checks and balances that should keep a degree of reality on the subject have been removed. It has now become a belief system devoid of even basic science preached as a religion used to be. And the non-believers are effectively thrown to the lions. I know you are going to say that it can not be a case that so many would go along with it, but there are many historical parallels of how people can be swept up and carried along, from witch hunts to Nazies to religous zeolts to fanaticism to cults. The fact we have internet or mass media has merely facilitate the same hypnotic suggestion to believe in this or that. Climate change is politics, not science, and it is predominantly based on a Marxist doctrine of redistribution of wealth. It is also used and abused by people trying to sell lumps of metal in the form of turbines, and providing high incomes for engineering projects that have ne real practical use and for individual research pay packets. And the biggest one now, the car manufacturers using climate change to force everybody to buy new ev cars despite their being no market or infrastructure and cars that require very expensive renewal of the batteries locking in repeat purchases forever. Climate change has become a fraud and a lie so big, it is too big to be dealt with - at the moment.

Masks do not prevent the spread, they most likely aid in the spread. Anybody with any symptoms should be in isolation rather than expecting a mask to prevent spreading. The only precaution the general public needs is hand washing when entering and leaving public places like shops. There has been wide variations in mask wearing policies around the world for so long it is blindingly obvious they do not prevent the spreading any virus. It is a comfort blanket for the insecure.

.... and as far as how often I post, that is frankly none of your business. When people keep posting denials I will remind the board of the reality and truths. I will answer anybody as I see fit, when I see fit.

I well understand the major inconvenience it is for me to constantly stop a false, fake and destruct narrative form being established. Certain people want to create a ramp fest illusion and sucker as many pis into buying without being aware of a dilution risk. To be frank, after the performance of the last few weeks and then watching the sp crash after the big build up to rainbow riches when Biden announces the opening date, you seriously have your work cut out trying to dupe people into buying this.

But you will keep shooting the messenger won't you. The plain basic real world facts are there from very credible sources and there is nothing you can do to change it. Only the people who made the statements can make changes, as they will in good time.

Maybe YOU lot should stop trying to insist the truth doesn't exist!!!

"it took me 2 minutes to pull apart your argument."

errrr no you didn't! The broker notes haven't been updated. Instead Berenberg raised the flag further by referring again to it. And nobody is slavishly following broker notes or predictions. The critical point was that 3 came out and said the same thing that IAG needed a RI. It took a week for a response from IAG which confirmed it was and as far as anybody knows due to very poor corporate communications, still is on the table.
"""We have revolving credit facilities, we are analysing other ways of financing the group so we have alternatives before we
[consider] another rights issue,""
I know how desperate some are to demolish and remove these very inconvenient statements. The broker notes have not been revised. Nothing has happened to change the warnings. Indeed, a fourth broker added to the other three a month later. That frankley demolished all the attempts from all the rampers to dismiss and filter out the comments form the brokers. Ignore them if you wish. Pretend they never existed. Pretend that they have magically been deleted. The company has failed to update the market on the outcome of the financial review. Nothing has changed in that respect. Delude yourselves, keep those heads buried in the sand and filter me.

The focus on the source of those comments is that they are not some comment form a hack in a crappy newspaper or worse a blogger! It wasn't one, or even two errant summaries, it was three and then reiterated by a fourth a month later. There has been no change in any of those positions form those brokers since. Until there is, it is a red flag share with a high risk factor. To pretend otherwise is just reckless.

** It also downgrades IAG to "hold", given heightened equity
dilution risk which may weigh on shares early next year --- Berenberg
https://www.lse.co.uk/news/IAG/berenberg-upgrades-easyjet-downgrades-iag-5yatu7tvtabidw2.html

Credit Suisse
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/960029/british-airways-owner-iag-target-price-cut-to-reflect-increasing-rights-issue-risk-says-credit-suisse-960029.html

HSBC
"Lobbenberg [head of European transport equity research at HSBC] added that the timing of any potential capital raise by IAG could be linked to an announcement on reopening the US border, which is now expected in December"
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-9980907/BA-owner-soon-raise-cash-shareholders.html

Goodbody
"Earlier this month, easyJet tapped investors for GBP1.2 billion in a fully underwritten rights issue ... Analysts at Goodbody and HSBC said they believed the British Airways parent would follow."
https://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/AN_1632125541714351000/press-iag-will-not-tap-investors-for-recovery-funds---sunday-times.aspx
Oct 2021
** It also downgrades IAG to "hold", given heightened equity
dilution risk which may weigh on shares early next year --- Berenberg

Quite speech Taky, but now explain away why so many brokers are saying it out loud. Those signals can not be ignored.

5 years fr now will be Oct 2026, less than four years from a ban on making and selling fossil fuel cars. Maybe! There will have been a general . Will people have voted to support personal flying quotas? Or will there have been an awakening and a completely new politics taking over by then. Hell of a risk holding airlines with a plan that far ahead. There are some massive upheavals ahead.

""people[money] being transferred from private investors to hedge funds"

Still makes no sense Mr Spreadbeter. I have no idea what you are talking about and have very rarely referenced hedge funds because they don't tend to work on pi money, do you have any idea what you are talking about?

"people being transferred from private investors to hedge funds"
What's that then? Never heard of anything like that. As far as 'you lost it all', where? Where did I lose it all? and how much was all? I am certainly nowhere near losing anything. This is the false caricature you have to construct in order to have something to lash out at. I repeatedly hit the nail on the head with you, I know your mind better than you do, I know your fears, I know your weaknesses and it scares you so you have to create a dolly to punch in some vain attempt at removing the real world from intruding into your fantasy universe. When does your spreadbet close sundanza? How much are leveraged, 10:1, 15:1?? You'r eon the verge of being wiped out aren't you? You are aren't you? I can tell from the angry lashing out and fake world you try to construct to protect yourself. You are way over exposed on this.

'it'? '... 'if not then it will have to try it tomorrow'
the sp is not a thing. It has no conscious experience of itself. It has no concept of 'resistances' or values. It is not a sentient being. Such talk is complete chartist rubbish and people should know by now after the recent performance to be on the guard against dribble like this which is put out as some sort of technical mathematical realism. It is nonsense and has no bearing on the real world. Out of some 25 years trading I have yet to ever see any consistency between this chartist mumbo jumbo and actual real world sp movements. It is always retrospective, 'oh I missed the gap there, that explains the sudden 50% drop'. It is nonsense. There is no such thing as a resistance. Many subscribe [pay money] to chartist platforms that are about as accurate and honest as a tarot card reader. Cross their eplams with silver and they will tell you want you want to hear.

It is designed to draw you in and become susceptible to whatever ramp fest or deramp fest the spreadbet syndicates have set up. You are then to be nudged into buy or sell on the syndicates command.

The new names and apparent rapport indicates to me this is a spreadbet for a rise, and an urgent position set up to hedge the recent losses as the original 200 bet maybe closing very soon.

short positions are at their highest since Jan 2020.

....... and cue the abusive comments........

Yay, get the flags out, it is above 160 again. That is some way off the promises being handed out when Biden was to announce the date. You've got to get through the cop month yet as well as see those red flags off. It isn't going anywhere near 200 whilst those issue remain. I suggest again, one reason for halting the decline is because a firm stance against introducing plan B has been made indicating a government willing to resist the mass media narrative. But how long before they cave in as before? That dilution red flag is massive and fluttering much higher in the wind now thanks to being raised higher by Berenberg. Pretend all you want it isn't there, but it is!

GOLDMAN CUTS INTERNATIONAL CONSOLIDATED AIRLINES PRICE TARGET TO 180 (204) PENCE - 'NEUTRAL'

Another vote of confidence?

The terminal decline halted suddenly and airlines suddenly trading neutral. When is the FCA going to look at this sector and deal with the automatic cross-trading between the stocks? These stocks should be decoupled and this block trading ended. It is wrong for other shares to be dragged down or market price impacted by one rogue share. The differentials between the markets served and individual airlines' circumstances is such post lockdown that this sector should not continue moving as one block as it has. Something very fishy about this sector.

Government resisting back peddling on introducing social distancing will be a positive for the market. Whether that is sustainable against very active mask and lockdown lobbyists that can count on mass media to run the propaganda inscently remains to be seen. And don't forget the EU, they are seeking every possible opportunity to knacker the UK when they can either directly or indirectly. Boris's government has been shown to be very weak in the face of media storms and so I expect capitulation which will be seized on and the danger of travel bans will increase. Just look at the reaction to a small increase from a low base of numbers and how the critical numbers [hospitalisation/deaths] has barely changed. It is true that the world has moved on a great deal and that living with covid is the order of the day, but this is coming about at very different speeds around the planet. The divisive lobby groups are still as primed and ready to take back control. The makeup of government is a bit different but with full media backing as shown over the last couple of days to go back to controlling the people directly, for me I give it 75% probability mask wearing will be mandated again - this time with some real trouble on the streets as seen all over the world when people get tired of such impositions of freedom. I was amused at the forced mask wearing in T5, an area which would have probably the highest percentage of vaccinated people in the country because all travellers need to have a fit to fly test before hand. It shows the lunavy that can prevail. The least likely infection zone has the hardest applied restrictions. Now what chances are there we will get rational thinking now it is kicking off again?

Also sorts of bubble. BBC pressing very hard to at least force people back into wearing masks. Soviet socialist ideology that loves to see uniformity applied to people, so getting back to everybody submissive to a central mask doctrine is just too delicious to dismiss for them.

Meanwhile, the hysteric climate change claims are being pushed back it seems with some leaked docs. Seems some governments aren't taking all the lies and frauds at face value and are questioning directly the so called 'science' of climate change. With the extent that the propaganda TV channels have gone along with promoting this rubbish it will be extremely difficult to get all governments to back peddle and return to a sense of realism.

So the impact on travel and airlines? Well the mask lobby will force us back to square one, the super spreaders will lead to a rapid increase in infections, lockdowns and travel bans will follow and airline stocks will be decimated. Hysterical environmentalists will press even harder as they start to feel threatened their gains to control the world are being challenged. The airlines are prime targets and the desire to control people will spill over into direct quotes on individuals limiting travel. Only state airlines and a few dedicated package operators will be left.

Until we get to a place where the one sided propaganda media globally is challenged and forced to tell the truth, the future is going to bleak.

Watching across the news tonight, the mask lobby is clearly back in force. They are back with another major push trying to wind the clock back to the days of control with false claims that masks somehow are more effective than things like vaccination in stemming the spread of the vaccine. Mask wearing was always a false claim, all objective studies of communities that wear masks compared to non mask wearing and controlled studies demonstrated there is no effective difference and that the most probable effect is allowing super spreaders to spread from mask to surface. This 'comfort blanket' as it was described in the comprehensive Danish study is being pushed back again. If the mask wearing is forced back, you can guarantee an intense spread of covid again, exactly as it was before. There will be no alternative but reintroduce lockdown. Forcing mask wearing again will put everything back to square one. Throughout the worst of the pandemic mask wearing was mandatory. The epidemic simply increased in all areas of the world where it was mandated. But the totally one-sided blinkered presentation in the news that this is some great solution is not being allowed to be questioned or challenged. Unbelievable. Just astonishing this massive error is about to be repeated.

Doing a 360, Morocco could have been told to put a ban on UK in order to try and set things up and start a campaign to shun UK. And yes, it will be the EU commission. They are still smarting at not getting favourable access to the states over the UK earlier in the year. Remember, form a 360 point of view, the EU is not a friend of the UK. Any and every trick to subdue us and gain whatever points above us will be used from here in to the end of time. As far as the commission is concen=rned they won the vaccine race against the UK as the tortoise winning the race. That is their frame of mind, they hate the UK.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9997015/Ursula-von-der-Leyen-reignites-vaccine-row-UK.html